was the appropriate choice of voice for my nadja story.

I can’t be half gentle enough,
half tender enough
toward you, toward you,
inarticulate, not half loving enough
BRIGHTen
the cor
ner
where you are

I forgot how much I love this book.  William Carlos Williams could use anything (a shitty New Jersey town) as a starting point or springboard for singing the most important lyrics.

perpetually,
in your composition and decomposition,
i find my
– despair!   
william carlos williams

What does all this lyrical effect do for fiction? Just like figures of speech, lyricism sinks your story deeper inside the subconscious of the reader. If music says things words can’t express, text that feels like music also carries those nonverbal meanings, immersing the reader in the experience in a rather primal way. Chris Lombardi

finished first draft of entry to next npr contest.  they didn’t want ‘we have built a house for you;’ i felt it was sufficiently creepy, but i guess i suck at structure so that was probably the problem.  i can’t seem to write with a predetermined structure, just the acknowledgment of structure as valuable seems to dissolve my ability to write freely, so this leaves me with writing the story first, letting it tell me what it wanted to say, and then adding the structure afterward.  maybe i just enjoy making more work for myself.

i spoke almost without words.  and i am an old hand in speaking without words.  i have spent all my life speaking without words.  i have lived through whole tragedies without uttering a word.
from dostoyevsky’s a gentle creature

(man’s) incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time.  which means he’s incapable of anything really worth while.  camus, the plague

Yet dost thou, darker half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith. 
All thy unnameable imminglings float beneath me here; I am buoyed by breaths of once living things…
Melville

“Echolocating animals emit calls out to the environment and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects in the environment. They use these echoes to locate, range, and identify the objects. Echolocation is used for navigation and for foraging in various environments.”